Emily’s Reviews > True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink > Status Update

"There's a phrase that pops up again and again in Merriam-Webster correspondence that is meant to gently explain to a writer asking for a very long explanation on a minor point of pedantry that, no, we're not gonna. We give the answer we have time for and then say that we can't continue the correspondence any further due to 'the press of editorial duties.'"

"He did eventually send Oakes a definition for 'off-white.' His definition: 'a color resembling white, but somewhat reddish, yellowish, greenish, bluish, or purplish; or darker or both slightly darker and chromatic.'"